2 Cornsnakes found dead :-(

Just a few posts I found that made me go....hmmm.

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Originally Posted by BastianUSA

Hi.

My baby corn(3-4 month) isn't eating since 3 weeks now,whenever i try to give him a pinkie he doesn't eat it.
I give him about 1 hour to eat it before i take it away.
I feed live and in a seperate container.
He was a good eater before that.

What can i do?

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Originally Posted by BastianUSA

Both male in a 100Gal. the other one is bigger(about 8 month old) but never had any problems with feeding.
And i feed them seperate of course.

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Originally Posted by BastianUSA

Sorry sorry it's just a 50Gal. tank.

OK then i have to buy some extra UTH's cause i allready have all the toher stuff.
I try it and let you guys know.

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Originally Posted by BastianUSA

Hi.

My Cornsnake just got bitten by an adult mouse while feeding.
Now it has a little wound right on the neck behind the neck which is bleeding a little bit.
What should i do to keep it from getting infected?

THX

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Originally Posted by BastianUSA

Ok,i could not clean it completly cause he just swallowed the mouse and i didn't want to put him under too much stress,but i cleaned it a little bit and put neosporin without pain killers on it.
But normally he likes to dig himself in after feeding,isn't that harmfull?
I use coconut shavings as beeding.

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Originally Posted by BastianUSA

Hi.

My new Cornsnake got in shed 2-3 days ago and burrowed under her hide,so i left her alone.
Today i wanted to feed her and saw that she was partially shed and had a big black clump on her right side in the back area of her tail stuck between old and new skin.
I soaked her in warm water and tried to remove all old shed and that black spot,a little flesh tore out with old skind and that brown stuff.
Now all i want to know is if this is only a flesh wound or if they have anything important in that area that may be damaged?
We go to the vet anyway tom. but i can't really sleep without knowing.
And we moved her to a quarantine tank and treated her with neosporin without painkillers.
http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l2...A/IMG_1254.jpg
http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l2...A/IMG_1255.jpg

THX for your help,and i know i am an idiot for not checking her a few days.

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It seems there has always been problems.

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I think your right Meme....there is some underlying causes here, that he is not explaining now, but has explained previously.

Could be that the UTH was always too hot, caused the wound we saw pics of and may have been the cause of death on that one.

I was off on my earlier estimates on wattage. I use 50 watt lights on my sand boas in 10 gal tanks sometimes and the temps get 105 or more. With the 25 they get up to 95.

One hot day with temps like that, with or without sunlight hitting the tank, and you could have a dead snake. That would also account for the dehydrated eyes.

and it has been EXTREMELY hot these past few days!

I've killed a snake before by having it's tank in the sun even tho the top of the tank was slotted! It only took 2 hrs...and the tank was inside with the air running :( It was a little Garter snake we found in the yard and we had gone to the pet store to buy some things for it. We've never made the mistake of putting a snake in the sun again....this was a long time ago.

While I think this is very sad I found odd that 2 healthy snakes house in two separate enclosures would die in the same circumstances at the same time.

This should really make you question your husbandry techniques.

Have you considered having a necropsy done to found out what really happened, and maybe help you prevent the same thing from happening again in the future.

I have to wonder about 'outside influences' like cleaners, air fresheners, bug fumigation (bombs etc.), liquid fertilizer on the lawn etc. The odds of having them both die at the same time from keeping errors in separate tanks are astronomical at best, the odds of something in the air or tanks themselves (cleaners, bleach) makes more sense to me. Just a thought...

Wow.

To the OP, I am so sorry this happened.

There do seem to be some underlying problems - we can't see the whole picture. Sorry if you feel overwhelmed by all these comments, but we are just concerned for your snakes. I hope you can figure out what happened and how to fix it for the future before investing in more snakes.

Good luck.

Ok,so you where right the snakes got to hot,a lot played into it and they where not controlled with a thermometer and the the outside temps where over a 100(39 celsius to be exact).
So i really have to say it was my own fault and i messed up.
to the other posts:

The 50 watt was on a lamp stand and like 4 inches away from the screen top.

Yes the baby corn got burned before on a UTH but i got her to the vet and all healed up nice and thats why one of them was heated by a lamp.

The mouse bite was no bite but a little scratch from the mouses foot.
And it was on a different snake.

to the not eating:
I kept two cornsnakes together for like 2 month but then decided to keep each one sperate.
after that he ate fine again there were no more eating problems.

My other 2 Snakes are fine btw and are now run by a zoo med rheostat.
(they are in a different room which doesn't get so much sunlight.)

I guess i learned the hard way and believe me i feel sad about it,so please don't see me as a bad person that doesn't take care of his pets.

So now flame away.

You realized your mistakes and admitted to having made them... who would flame you for that? If you had denied everything or started screaming about it, then people could and would flame you.

SO sorry for your losses, but at least now you know better what to do. I lost my Pacman frog from neglect due to too little knowledge, so I know how it feels. Just make sure you learn from it and things should be A-Ok. :)